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This image was captured underwater in a cenote (sinkhole) full of lily pads in Mexico.
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Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
And yet floating among the Convention’s fifty thousand attendees, like lily pads across a pond, were hundreds of Black women dressed in the sorority’s colors: vibrant greens and various shades of pink—hot, rose, pastel.
—Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
The first example, Automate Fée Ondine, came to life in a whimsical scene set with a jeweled fairy resting atop a lily pad.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
The Swarm of Life by Shane Gross Beneath a layer of lily pads covering the water like a blanket, a legion of western toad tadpoles swims toward the surface of Canada’s Cedar Lake to feed.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
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Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
And yet floating among the Convention’s fifty thousand attendees, like lily pads across a pond, were hundreds of Black women dressed in the sorority’s colors: vibrant greens and various shades of pink—hot, rose, pastel.
—Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
The first example, Automate Fée Ondine, came to life in a whimsical scene set with a jeweled fairy resting atop a lily pad.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
The Swarm of Life by Shane Gross Beneath a layer of lily pads covering the water like a blanket, a legion of western toad tadpoles swims toward the surface of Canada’s Cedar Lake to feed.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Lily pad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lily%20pad. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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